Birds found during the 
FONT Birding & Nature Tours 
in Southern Costa Rica 

 in February 2004 & 
January 2005

List compiled by Armas Hill



Codes:

1:   February 7-14, 2004
     in the Talamanca Mtns (tm)
     along the Costa Rican coast from Dominical south (cc)
     in the San Vito area, including "Las Cruces" (sv)
     in & near Golfito (gf)
     on the Osa Peninsula, and to Drake Bay (op)
     in San Jose (sj), near San Isidro (si)

2:  January 15-23, 2005
     in the Talamanca Mtns (tm)
     along the Costa Rican coast from Dominical south (cc)
     in the San Vito area (sv), with a visit to nearby Chiriqui, Panama (pn)
     in & near Golfito (gf)
     on the Osa Peninsula (op)
     in San Jose (sj), near San Vito (si) 
       

 
(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International.
(t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.
(i): introduced species.
 (e): Costa Rican endemic
(r/CR): rare in Costa Rica.
(h): heard only

Links:

Cumulative Lists of Birds during our Costa Rica Tours

List of Central American Mammals & Some Other Wildlife

List of Selected Central American Butterflies

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours  in Costa Rica


Bird-List:
  1. Great Tinamou - 1:gf,op
  2. Little Tinamou - 1:op  2:cc,sv,gf,op
  3. Pied-billed Grebe - 2:pn
  4. Least Grebe - 1:op,sv 
  5. Brown Pelican - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf
  6. Brown Booby - 1:cc
  7. Neotropic Cormorant - 1:cc,gf  2:cc
  8. Magnificent Frigatebird - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf
  9. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron - 1:op
  10. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2:cc
  11. Boat-billed Heron - 1:op
  12. Cattle Egret - 1:cc,gf,op,si  2:cc,pn,gf,op,si
  13. Green Heron - 1:cc,gf  2:cc,gf,sv
  14. Little Blue Heron - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf,op
  15. Tricolored Heron - 1:cc  2:cc
  16. Snowy Egret - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,op
  17. Great Egret - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,sv,pn,gf,op
  18. Great Blue Heron - 2:gf
  19. Wood Stork - 2:op
  20. White Ibis - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf,op
  21. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - 1:gf,op  2:op
  22. Blue-winged Teal - 1:sv  2:sv
  23. Turkey Vulture - 1:cc,gf,op,si,sv,tm  2:cc,gf,op,pn,si,sv
  24. American Black Vulture - 1:cc,gf,op,si,sv,tm  2:cc,gf,op,pn,si,sv
  25. King Vulture - 1:op
  26. Osprey - 1:gf,op,tm  2:cc,op
  27. Gray-headed Kite - 1:op,sv
  28. Swallow-tailed Kite - 1:gf,op,si,tm  2:gf,op,si
  29. White-tailed Kite - 1:gf  2:gf,sv
  30. Double-toothed Kite - 1:op
  31. Pearl Kite (r/CR) - 1:op (seen @nest)  2:sv
  32. Crane Hawk - 1:gf
  33. White Hawk - 1:op
  34. "Mangrove/Pacific Black Hawk" - 1:op  2:op
  35. Great Black Hawk - 1:op
  36. Savanna Hawk (r/CR) - 2:gf
  37. Gray (-lined) Hawk - 1:op  2:cc,op
  38. Roadside Hawk - 1:cc,gf,op,tm  2:cc,gf,op,sv
  39. Broad-winged Hawk - 1:op,tm  2:si,tm
      
  40. Short-tailed Hawk - 1:op  2:pn
  41. Red-tailed Hawk - 1:tm
  42. Northern Crested Caracara - 1:cc,gf  2:cc,gf,op
  43. Yellow-headed Caracara - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf,op,sv
  44. Laughing Falcon - 1:cc,gf,op  2:gf,sv
  45. Bat Falcon - 2:op
  46. Gray-headed Chachalaca - 2:cc,sv
  47. Crested Guan - 2:gf
  48. Black Guan (nt) - 2:tm
  49. Marbled Wood-Quail - 1:op  2:cc
  50. Gray-necked Wood-Rail - 1:sv  2:op
  51. White-throated Rail/Crake - 1:gf,op(h)  2:gf.op(h)
  52. Common Gallinule/Moorhen - 1:sv  2:sv
  53. Purple Gallinule - 1:gf,sv  2:gf,sv
  54. Northern Jacana - 1:cc,gf,op,sv  2:cc,sv,gf,op
  55. Semipalmated Plover - 1:op
  56. Wilson's/Thick-billed Plover - 1:op
  57. Whimbrel - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,op
  58. Willet - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf
  59. Spotted Sandpiper - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf
  60. Solitary Sandpiper - 1:gf,op 2:cc,op
  61. Ruddy Turnstone - 1:gf  2:cc,gf
  62. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1:op
  63. Least Sandpiper - 1:op
  64. Laughing Gull - 1:gf,op  2:cc,gf
  65. Royal Tern - 1:gf  2:cc,gf
  66. Sandwich Tern - 1:gf  2:cc,gf
  67. Feral Pigeon (i) - 1:gf,op,si,sj,sv  2:gf,pn,si,sj,sv
  68. Band-tailed Pigeon - 1:tm
  69. Pale-vented Pigeon - 1:gf  2:cc,gf,op,sv
  70. Red-billed Pigeon - 1:sj
  71. Short-billed Pigeon - 1:gf,op  2:gf
  72. White-winged Dove - 1:sj  2:sj
  73. Ruddy Ground-Dove - 1:cc,gf,op,sv  2:cc,gf,op,sv
  74. Inca Dove - 1:sj  2:sj
  75. Blue Ground-Dove - 1:gf,op  2:gf
  76. White-tipped/-fronted Dove - 1:cc,gf,op,si,sv  2:cc,gf,op,sv
  77. Gray-chested Dove - 1:op,sv
  78. Ruddy Quail-Dove - 1:sv
  79. Scarlet Macaw - 1:op  2:op
  80. Crimson-fronted Parakeet - 1:gf,sj,sv  2:sj
  81. Orange-fronted Parakeet  - 2:cc,sv
     
  82. Orange-chinned/Tovi Parakeet - 1:gf,op  2:cc,gf,op,pn,sv
  83. Sulphur-winged Parakeet - 1:tm
  84. Brown-hooded Parrot - 1:gf  2:gf
  85. White-crowned Parrot - 1:gf,si,op  2:si,sv
  86. Blue-headed Parrot - 1:gf,sv  2:sv
  87. Red-lored Parrot - 1:gf,op  2:gf,op
  88. Mealy Parrot - 1:gf,op
  89. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1:gf
  90. Mangrove Cuckoo - 2:cc,gf
  91. Squirrel Cuckoo - 1:op,sv  2:cc,gf,op
  92. Smooth-billed Ani - 1:gf,op,sv  2:cc,gf,op
  93. Striped Cuckoo - 1:gf,op  2:cc,gf,op
  94. Spectacled Owl - 1:op
  95. Striped Owl - 1:op
  96. Gray (formerly Common) Potoo - 2:gf
  97. Lesser Nighthawk - 1:cc  2:gf
  98. Pauraque - 1:gf,op  2:gf,op
  99. White-tailed Nightjar - 2:op
  100. White-chinned Swift - 1:sj
  101. Chestnut-collared Swift - 2:si
  102. White-collared Swift - 2:si
  103. Vaux's (or Dusky-backed) Swift - 2:si
  104. Costa Rican (formerly part of Band-rumped) Swift - 1:op  2:op
  105. Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift - 1:op  2:gf
  106. White-tipped Sicklebill - 1:op (seen @nest)
  107. Bronzy Hermit - 1:op (seen @nest)
  108. Band-tailed Barbthroat - 1:op (seen @nest)  2:gf
     
  109. Western Long-tailed (or Long-billed) Hermit - 1:op  2:gf
  110. Stripe-throated (formerly Little) Hermit - 1:op  2:gf
  111. Scaly-breasted Hummingbird - 1:op
     
  112. Violet Sabrewing - 1:tm
  113. White-necked Jacobin - 1:gf,op
  114. Brown Violetear - 2:si
  115. Montane (has been part of Green) Violetear - 1:tm  2:tm
  116. Violet-headed Hummingbird - 1:op (seen @ nest)
  117. White-crested (or Adorable) Coquette - 1:op
  118. Garden (has been part of Fork-tailed) Emerald - 2:si,sv
  119. Crowned Woodnymph - 1:op  2: cc,gf,si,sv
  120. Fiery-throated Hummingbird - 1:tm  2:tm
  121. Blue-throated Goldentail - 1:op (seen @ nest)
  122. Beryl-crowned (or Charming) Hummingbird - 1:op,sv  2:cc,op
  123. Mangrove Hummingbird (t2) (e) - 1:op
  124. Snowy-bellied Hummingbird - 2:pn,si
  125. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird - 1:gf,op,sv  2:cc,gf,sv
  126. Gray-tailed Mountain-gem (e) - 1:tm
  127. Green-crowned Brilliant - 1:tm
  128. Magnificent Hummingbird - 1:tm  2:tm
  129. Magenta-throated Woodstar - 1:tm
  130. Scintillant Hummingbird - 1:tm
  131. Volcano Hummingbird - 1:tm  2:tm
  132. Resplendent Quetzal (nt) - 1:tm
  133. Slaty-tailed (or Massena) Trogon - 1:op  2:op
  134. Baird's Trogon (nt) - 1:gf,op  2:gf
  135. Collared Trogon - 1:tm
  136. Black-throated Trogon - 1:op
  137. Northern Violaceous Trogon - 1:op
  138. Ringed Kingfisher - 1:op  2:cc
  139. Amazon Kingfisher - 1:op  2:cc,gf
  140. Green Kingfisher - 1:gf  2:cc,gf
  141. American Pygmy Kingfisher - 2:gf
  142. Blue-crowned Motmot - 1:gf,op,sv,tm  2:si,sv
  143. White-necked Puffbird - 1:gf
  144. Fiery-billed Aracari - 1:cc,op  2:cc,op,si
  145. Chestnut-mandibled (or Swainson's) Toucan - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf,op,si
  146. Olivaceous Piculet - 2:cc
  147. Acorn Woodpecker - 1:tm
  148. Golden-naped Woodpecker - 1:gf  2:gf
  149. Hoffmann's Woodpecker - 1:sj  2:sj
     
  150. Red-crowned Woodpecker - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf,op,si
     
  151. Hairy Woodpecker - 1:tm
  152. Rufous-winged Woodpecker - 1:gf
  153. Lineated Woodpecker - 1:gf,op  2:gf
  154. Pale-billed Woodpecker - 1:op
  155. Olivaceous Woodcreeper - 1:sv
  156. Wedge-billed Woodcreeper - 2:gf 
  157. Cocoa (formerly Buff-throated) Woodcreeper - 1:gf,op  2:gf,op
  158. Black-striped Woodcreeper - 1:op  2:gf
     
  159. Spotted Woodcreeper - 1:tm
  160. Streak-headed Woodcreeper - 1:gf  2:gf
  161. Spot-crowned Woodcreeper - 1:tm
  162. Slaty Spinetail - 1:op
  163. Buffy Tuftedcheek - 1:tm
  164. Plain Xenops - 1:op,sv
  165. Barred Antshrike - 2:cc
  166. Black-hooded Antshrike - 1:gf,op  2:cc
  167. Plain Antvireo - 1:sv
  168. Dot-winged Antwren - 1:op,sv
  169. Chestnut-backed Antbird - 1:op,sv
  170. Black-faced Antthrush - 1:op
  171. White-winged Becard - 1:op,sv
  172. Rose-throated Becard - 1:gf,op,sv  2:op
  173. Masked Tityra - 1:gf,op,sv  2:op
  174. Black-crowned Tityra - 1:op
  175. Rufous Piha - 1:sv
     
  176. Turquoise Cotinga - 1:op
  177. Yellow-billed (or Antonia's) Cotinga (t2) - 2:op
  178. Three-wattled Bellbird - 1:op(h)  2:op(h)
  179. Red-capped Manakin - 1:gf,op  2:op
  180. Blue-crowned Manakin - 1:sv
  181. White-ruffed Manakin - 1:sv  2:si
  182. Orange-collared Manakin - 1:op,sv
  183. Black Phoebe - 1:tm  2:si
  184. Fork-tailed Flycatcher - 1:gf  2:gf
     
  185. Tropical Kingbird - 1:cc,gf,op,sj,sv,tm  2:cc,gf,op,pn,si,sv
  186. Piratic Flycatcher - 1:gf,op,si
  187. Bright-rumped Attila - 1:op,sv
  188. Streaked Flycatcher - 1:gf  2:cc,op
  189. Gray-capped Flycatcher - 1:op,si  2:op,si,sv
  190. Social Flycatcher - 1:cc,gf,op,si,sv,tm  2:cc,gf,op,pn,si,sv
  191. Boat-billed Flycatcher - 1:cc.op
  192. Great Kiskadee - 1:cc,gf.op,sj,sv,tm  2:cc,gf,op,si,sj
  193. Brown-crested Flycatcher - 1:gf
  194. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1:op  2:cc,gf
  195. Dusky-capped Flycatcher - 1:gf,op
  196. Olive-sided Flycatcher 2:si
  197. Tropical Pewee - 1:gf
  198. Dark Pewee - 1:sv,tm
  199. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1:tm
  200. Yellowish Flycatcher - 1:tm
  201. Black-capped Flycatcher - 1:tm
  202. Northern/Common Tufted Flycatcher - 1:tm
  203. Black-tailed Flycatcher - 1:op
  204. Yellow-olive Flycatcher - 1:gf  2:gf
  205. Common Tody-Flycatcher - 1:gf,op,si  2:cc,si
  206. Yellow Tyrannulet - 1:op
  207. Torrent Tyrannulet - 1:tm
  208. Yellow-bellied Elaenia - 1:op,si
  209. Lesser Elaenia - 1:sv  2:op,sv
  210. Mountain Elaenia - 1:tm
  211. Southern Beardless Tyrannulet - 1:gf
  212. Mistletoe (formerly Paltry) Tyrannulet - 1:gf.op
  213. Yellow-crowned Tyrannulat - 1:cc  2:sv
  214. Zeledon's Tyrannulet - 1:sv
  215. Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet - 1:gf
     
  216. Ochre-bellied Flycatcher - 1:op,sv
  217. Gray-breasted Martin - 1:cc,gf,op  2:cc,gf,op,si
  218. Blue-and-white Swallow - 1:sj,sv,tm  2:pn,sj,sv,tm
  219. Southern Rough-winged Swallow - 1:cc,gf,op,sv  2:cc,gf,op,si,sv
  220. Barn Swallow - 1:gf,op  2:gf,op
  221. Mangrove Swallow - 1:gf,op  2:cc.gf,op
  222. Brown Jay - 1:sj  2:cc,si
  223. Plain Wren - 1:op  2:gf
  224. Riverside Wren - 1:gf,op  2:gf,op
  225. Rufous-breasted Wren - 2:sv
  226. (Southern) House Wren - 1:gf,op,sj,sv  2:cc,gf,op,pn,si,sv
  227. Timberline Wren - 1:tm
  228. Gray-breasted Wood-Wren - 2:tm
  229. Black-faced Solitaire - 1:tm
  230. Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush - 1:tm  2:tm
  231. Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush - 1:tm
  232. Sooty Robin - 1:tm  2:tm
  233. Mountain Robin - 1:tm
  234. Clay-colored Thrush/Robin - 1:gf,op,si,sj,sv,tm  2:cc,gf,op,pn,si,sj,sv,tm
  235. White-throated Robin - 1:tm
  236. Tropical Gnatcatcher - 1:si  2:cc
  237. Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher - 1:tm
  238. Yellow-throated Vireo - 2:sv
  239. Yellow-winged Vireo - 1:tm
  240. Red-eyed Vireo - 1:gf
  241. Yellow-green Vireo - 1:si
  242. Lesser Greenlet - 1:op,sv  2:op
  243. Bananaquit - 1:cc,gf,op,si  2:cc,gf,op,pn,sv
  244. Black-and-white Warbler - 1:sv  2:pn,sv
  245. Tennessee Warbler - 1:gf,op,sv,tm  2:cc,gf,op,pn,si,sv
  246. Flame-throated Warbler - 1:tm
  247. Yellow Warbler - 1:gf,si,sv  2:cc,gf,si,sv
  248. Mangrove Warbler (has been part of Yellow Warbler) - 1:gf,op
  249. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1:tm
  250. Blackburnian Warbler - 1:tm
  251. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1:gf,op,si  2:cc,gf,pn,si,sv
  252. Northern Waterthrush - 1:op  2:cc
  253. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2:si
  254. Mourning Warbler - 2:gf
  255. Wilson's Warbler - 1:tm  2:tm
  256. Slate-throated Redstart - 1:sv  2:sv
  257. Collared Redstart - 1:tm
  258. Buff-rumped Warbler - 1:op
  259. Chestnut-headed Oropendola - 2:sv
  260. Montezuma Oropendola - 1:sj
  261. Scarlet-rumped Cacique - 2:gf
     
  262. Baltimore Oriole - 1:gf,op,tm  2:cc,gf
  263. Orchard Oriole - 2:cc
  264. Eastern Meadowlark - 1:sj  2:gf
  265. Red-breasted Blackbird - 1:gf,op  2:gf
  266. Great-tailed Grackle - 1:cc,gf,si,sj,sv,op  2:cc,gf,pn,si.sj,sv,op
  267. Bronzed (or Red-eyed) Cowbird - 1:gf,op  2:gf,op,si
  268. Blue Dacnis - 1:op
  269. Scarlet-thighed Dacnis - 1:op
  270. Red-legged Honeycreeper - 1:cc,op  2:cc,gf
  271. Shining Honeycreeper - 1:gf,op
  272. Green Honeycreeper - 1:gf,op  2:gf
  273. Slaty Flower-piercer - 1:tm
  274. Common Bush Tanager - 1:tm  2:sv
  275. Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager - 1:tm  2:tm
  276. Gray-headed Tanager - 1:op
  277. White-shouldered Tanager - 1:op
  278. White-lined Tanager - 1:gf
  279. Red-crowned Ant-Tanager - 1:sv
  280. Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager (t2) (e) - 1:op
  281. Flame-colored Tanager - 1:tm
  282. Summer Tanager - 1:gf,op,si,sv,tm  2:sv
  283. Western Tanager - 2:sv
  284. Cherrie's (formerly Scarlet-rumped) Tanager - 1:cc,gf,op,si,sv  2:cc,gf,op,pn,si,sv
  285. Blue-gray Tanager - 1:cc,gf,op,si,sv,tm  2:cc,gf,pn,op,si,sj
  286. Palm Tanager - 1: gf,op,si,sv  2:cc,gf,op
  287. White-vented Euphonia - 1:gf
  288. Spot-crowned Euphonia - 1:gf
  289. Yellow-crowned Euphonia - 1:gf  2:gf
  290. Thick-billed Euphonia - 1:gf  2:gf,sv
  291. Silver-throated Tanager - 1:sv  2:sv
  292. Bay-headed Tanager - 1:gf,op  2:sv
  293. Golden-hooded Tanager - 1:gf,op,si  2:gf,op,si,sv
  294. Buff-throated Saltator - 1:gf,op  2:gf,si,sv
  295. Grayish Saltator - 1:sj  2:sj
  296. Streaked Saltator - 1:sv
  297. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1:sj,op  2:sv
  298. Blue-black Grosbeak - 1:op
  299. Yellow-faced Grassquit - 2:pn,si
  300. Variable Seedeater - 1:gf,op  2:cc,gf,op,si
  301. Yellow-bellied Seedeater - 1:gf  2:si
  302. Ruddy-breasted Seedeater - 1:gf  2:gf
  303. Thick-billed (or Lesser) Seed-Finch - 1:gf  2:gf
  304. Blue-black Grassquit - 1:gf,op  2:cc,gf,op,pn,sv
  305. Grassland Yellow-Finich (r/CR) - 1:gf  2:gf
     
  306. Large-footed Finch - 1:tm
  307. Yellow-thighed Finch - 1:tm
  308. Orange-billed Sparrow - 1:gf,op
  309. Black-striped Sparrow - 1:gf,op  2:gf,op
  310. Volcano Junco - 2:tm
  311. Rufous-collared Sparrow - 1:sj,sv,tm  2:sj,sv,tm
  312. House Sparrow (i) - 2 gf  



Mammals & Some Other Wildlife during FONT tours 
in Southern Costa Rica in 2004 & 2005

Mantled Howler Monkey - 1, 2

White-faced Capuchin (Monkey) - 1

Central American Spider Monkey - 1

Central American (or Red-backed) Squirrel Monkey - 2

Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth - 1
 
Northern Tamandua (or Banded Anteater) - 1

Collared Peccary - 1

Northern Raccoon - 1

Central American Agouti - 1, 2
 
White-nosed Coati - 1, 2

Variegated Squirrel - 1. 2

Red-tailed Squirrel - 1. 2

Tropical Cottontail Rabbit - 1

rat (sp.) - 1

Forest Spiny Pocket Mouse - 2

Long-nosed Bat - 1

Black Myotis - 1 

bats (sp.) - 1, 2


Spectacled Caiman - 1, 2

Iguana - 1

Basilisk - 1, 2

Poison Dart Frogs (red; green & black) - 1

Morpho Butterflies - 1, 2

Owl Butterfly - 1

other butterflies - 2 (in Butterflies of Central America list, those marked "CR")

Leaf-cutter & other forest ants - 1, 2

fresh water turtles - 1